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CONTENTS Ex.1
August =300
Grouping Data
Definitions Sept. =?
Chance And Probability (i) How many balloons were produced in the
month of July ?
Outcomes As Events Ans. 250
(ii) In which month were maximum number of
Probability of An Event balloons produced ?
Ans. September
DATA A bar graph : A display of information using
bars of uniform width, their heights being
The information collected by observation for
proportional to the respective values.
experiments is called data.
Ex.2
Data can represented graphically, by
350
No. of students in Class VIII
Number of students
16
two sets of data simultaneously. It is useful
14
for the comparison of the data.
Ex.3 12
10
10
80
Marks obtained by a student
2005-06 2006-07 7
70 8
60
6
50
40 4
2 1
30 2
20
O 10 30 40 50 60
10 20
Maths S.Science Science English Hindi Marks of the students
Subject The height of the bars show the frequency of
(i) What is the information given by the double the class-interval. Also, there is no gap
bar graph ? between the bars as there is no gap between
Ans. Marks of a student in various subjects in two the class-intervals.
successive academic years.
The graphical representation of data in this
(ii) In which subject has the performance
manner is called a histogram.
improved the most ?
Ans. Maths Note :
(iii) In which subject has the performance Bars of equal width with no gaps in between.
deteriorated? Height of bar gives the number of data items
Ans. English in a particular group and is the frequency.
(iv) In which subject is the performance at par ?
Ans. Hindi
Age of 25 teachers of a school Reading a Pie Chart
Ex.5 Let us consider the following pie chart. It
Number of teachers
(b) Which candidate is least popular ? Sol. Here the 24 hours is represented by 360º.
(c) If 2880 people were surveyed, how many 360
1 hour is = 15º
people preferred the candidate B ? 24
Hence
55º Activity Number Angle
90º of Hours
120º 35º Sleep 8 360
60º × 8 = 120º
24
School 7 360
× 7 = 105º
Sol. 24
Draw a pie chart for this data. It is not easy to answer the question looking at the
choices written haphazardly. We arrange the data
Sol. We find the central angle of each sector.
in Table using tally marks.
Here the total sale = Rs 720. We thus have
this table.
Table If we make a frequency distribution table for each
observation, then the table would be too long, so,
Subject Tally marks Number of students for convenience, we make groups of observations
Art 7 say, 0-10, 10-20 and so on, and obtain a frequency
distribution of the number of observations falling
Mathematics 5
in each group. Thus, the frequency distribution
Science 6 table for the above data can be.
0 - 10 2
The number of tallies before each subject gives
10 - 20 10
the number of students who like that particular
20 - 30 21
subject.
30 - 40 19
This is known as the frequency of that subject. 40 - 50 7
Frequency gives the number of times that a 50 - 60 1
particular entry occurs. Total 60
From Table
Data presented in this manner is said to be
Frequency of students who like English is 4
grouped and the distribution obtained is called
Frequency of students who like Mathematics is 5 grouped frequency distribution. It helps us to
The table made is known as frequency draw meaningful inferences like-
distribution table as it gives the number of times (1) Most of the students have scored between 20
an entry occurs. and 40
GROUPING DATA (2) Seven students have scored more than 40
marks out of 50 and so on.
The data regarding choice of subjects showed the
occurrence of each of the entries several times. Each of the groups 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, etc., is
For example, Art is liked by 7 students. called a Class Interval (or briefly a class).
Mathematics is liked by 5 students and so on DEFINITIONS
(Table). This information can be displayed
graphically using a pictograph or a bargraph. 1. Upper limit & Lower limits :
Sometimes, however, we have to deal with a large The value of classes from above examples 0, 10,
data. For example, consider the following marks 20, 30, 40, 50 are lower class limits and 10, 20,
(out of 50) obtained in Mathematics by 60 students 30, 40, 50, 60 are called upper class limits.
of Class VIII. i.e. 0 – 10
21, 10, 30, 22, 33, 5, 37, 12, 25, 42, 15, 39, 26,
32, 18, 27, 28, 19, 29, 35, 31, 24, 36, 18, 20, 38,
Lower Upper
22, 44, 16, 24, 10, 27, 39, 28, 49, 29, 32, 23, 31,
21, 34, 22, 23, 36, 24, 36, 33, 47, 48, 50, 39, 20, *Upper limit element is always count in next
7, 16, 36, 45, 47, 30, 22, 17. class.
2. Class Interval : (Upper limit-Lower limit) is (i) What is the size of the class ?
called class interval. In above eg. class interval is Ans. ‘125 – 100 = 25’
10 for all classes. This interval is called class (ii) Which class has the highest frequency ?
width or size of class.
Ans. ‘200 – 225’
3. Class marks or mid points : (iii) Which class has the lowest frequency ?
The mean number of both upper limit & lower Ans. ‘300 – 325’
limit for each class. (iv) What is the upper limit of the class interval
xy 250-275?
If a class is "x – y" then class mark =
2 Ans. ‘275’
Ex.10 Find class marks of 112.7 – 119.9 (v) Which two classes have the same frequency ?
112.7 119.9 Ans. ‘150 – 175, 225 – 250’
Sol. Class mark =
2 Ex.12 Construct a frequency distribution table for
232.6 the data on weights (in kg) of 20 students of a
= = 116.3
2 class using intervals 30-35, 35-40 and so on.
4. Range : 40, 38, 33, 48, 60, 53, 31, 46, 34, 36, 49, 41,
55, 49, 65, 42, 44, 47, 38, 39
The range of frequency distribution data is equal
to upper limit of last class – lower limit of first Sol.
P(A ) P ( A ) 1
EXERCISE # 1
Q.1 For which of these would you use a histogram Q.5 The number of hours for which students of a
to show the data ? particular class watched television during
(a) The number of letters for different areas holidays is shown through the given graph.
Answer the following
in a postman's bag.
(i) For how many hours did the maximum
(b) The height of competitors in an athletics number of students watch TV ?
meet. (ii) How many students watched TV for less
(c) The number of cassettes produced by 5 than 4 hours ?
companies. (iii) How many students spent more than 5
hours in watching TV ?
(d) The number of passengers boarding
trains from 7 : 00 a.m. to 7 : 00 p.m. at a
32
Number of students
station. 32
Give reasons for each. 28
Q.2 The shoppers who come to a departmental 24 22
store are marked as : man (M), woman(W), 20
boy(B) or girl(G). The following list gives 16
the shoppers who came during the first hour
12
in the morning : 8 8
8 6
WWWGBWWMGGMMWWWW
4
GBMWBGGMWWMMWWWM 4
WBWGMWWWWGWMMWWM
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
WGWMGWMMBGGW
Make a frequency distribution table using Hours of TV watched per day
tally marks. Draw a bar graph to illustrate it. Q. 6 A survey was made to find the type of music
that a certain group of young people liked in a
Q.3 The weekly wages (in Rs) of 30 workers in a
city. Adjoining pie chart shows the findings
factory are. of this survey.
830, 835, 890, 810, 835, 836, 869, 845, 898, Semi Classical
890, 820, 860, 832, 833, 855, 845, 804, 808, 20%
A C
Q.8 The adjoining pie chart gives the marks
D
scored in an examination by a student in
Hindi, English, Mathematics, Social Science (a) Spinning a wheel
and Science. If the total marks obtained by (b) Tossing two coins together
the students were 540, answer the following
Q.11 When a die is thrown, list the outcomes of an
questions.
event of getting
S.Science
(i) (a) a prime number
Mathematics
(b) not a prime number
90º 65º
(ii) (a) a number greater than 5
80º Science
55º (b) a number not greater than 5
70º
English
Q.12 Find the
Hindi
(a) Probability of the pointer stopping on D
(i) In which subject did the student score 105
in (Question 1-(a)) ?
marks ?
(b) Probability of getting an ace from a well
(Hint : for 540 marks, the central
shuffled deck of 52 playing cards ?
angle = 360º. So, for 105 marks, what is the
(c) Probability of getting a red apple.(see
central angle ?)
figure below)
(ii) How many more marks were obtained by the
student in Mathematics than in Hindi ?
G R R
(iii) Examine whether the sum of the marks
obtained in Social Science and Mathematics R G R
M 15 Summer
Winter
90º
5 150º
B
Rainy
120º
G 12
8. (i) Hindi (ii) 30 marks (iii) Yes
3. 9.
Bangla
Interval Tally marks Frequency 20º
Tamil
800 - 810 3 35º
2 Hindi
810 - 820 Marathi
200º
45º
820 - 830 1
English
830 - 840 9 60º
10. (a) Outcomes A, B, C, D
840 - 850 5
(b) HT, HH, TH, TT (Here HT means Head on
first coin and Tail on the second coin and so on).
850 - 860 1 11. Outcomes of an event of getting
(i) (a) 2, 3, 5 (b) 1, 4, 6
860 - 870 3 (ii) (a) 6 (b) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
12. (a) 1/5 (b) 1/13 (c) 4/7
870 - 880 1 13. (i) 1/10 (ii) 1/2 (iii) 2/5 (iv) 9/10
3
880 - 890 1 14. Probability of getting a green sector = ,
5
4
4
890 - 900 probability of getting a non-blue sector =
5
Total 30 1
15.
4. (i) 830 – 840 (ii) 10 (iii) 20 2
5. (i) 4 – 5 hours (ii) 34 (iii) 14
10
Number of workers
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
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